More Colorado Sunshine and Powder!

Colorado had already treated us fairly well, with two powder days at Vail and Breckenridge. Things continued positively for Scott and I with our next two days at Arapahoe Basin and Keystone, respectively.

We purposely planned to hit A-Basin on a bluebird day.  It was beautiful!  A-Basin is known for being a challenging, less-resorty type mountain. We liked it because it reminded us a little more of our home resort (Stevens). However, I have to say, I skied the hardest stuff I ever have here, including one run off the Pallavicini Chair! This place is steep, and doesn't make access to all their terrain super easy (traverses and hikes, etc.).

From the backside of A-Basin

This is one of Scott's favorite places to ski, so he was having a great time all over the place.  His highlights include: Pallavicini runs, backside runs, fast groomers, cornice drops, and taking his wife places that were scary. :)

This pretty much sums up our day/entire ski trip. :)

After the skiing, we took the short drive up to the top of Loveland Pass, which also happens to be the Continental Divide!  We did many crossovers of the Divide on our summer road trip, but never got a picture.  This time, we finally made it happen.

Gotta stay west of that divide. :)

Colorado is crazy, everybody.  There are SO many ski resorts close together. You wake up in the morning and take your pick.  The next day's choice took us to Keystone.  We were particularly excited to do Keystone because my friend from Seattle, Jess, and her boyfriend, Andy were going to meet us there!  

Keystone is maybe not the most interesting resort out of the Colorado bunch, but we did find some pretty cool stuff to keep us entertained.  The first was this crazy snow fort with slides and tubes. We're pretty sure that this was made for kids, but come on, who can resist? 

Me and Jess in Kidtopia!

Another super cool thing about Keystone, is you can pay $10 to take a cat lap.  Yep, ride in a snow-cat to some untracked powder. Pretty sweet. We weren't sure how the conditions would be, but they turned out to be awesome!  

Me, Jess, Andy by the Cat!

Our cat lap was definitely a highlight of our trip!  We found boot deep super hero powder in a beautiful mellow bowl.  Thanks Jess and Andy for taking the adventure lap with us!  We finished out the day and had a great dinner with these two at Pug Ryan's in Frisco.